This month we look at the puzzle of Parkinson’s disease and recent efforts to address the aggregation of misfolded alpha-synuclein before it reaches the brain. JBC associate editor Chris Whitfield talks about his research into bacterial polysaccharides. And Bill Sullivan explains how to serve up a killer research seminar.
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The April issue of ASBMB Today is full of information you’ll need if you’re attending the 2018 ASBMB Annual Meeting. Find profiles of this year’s annual award lecturers, a map of main attractions in San Diego (aka beaches), a dining guide and a schedule of sessions about life outside of the lab. The cover story this month is about using microbes to preserve artifacts. Also in this issue is a Retrospective for Nobel laureate Günter Blobel, two essays (one by a grad student and the other by a faculty member) about problems with the GRE, a sampling of new research published in ASBMB journals, and much more. Read the April issue .